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CAMDEN SOCIETY, FOR THE PUBLICATION OF EARLY HISTORICAL AND LITERARY REMAINS. AT a General Meeting of the Camden Society held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, on Friday the 2nd of May, 1845, THE RIGHT HON. LORD BRAYBROOKE IN THE CHAIR. HIS Lordship having opened the business of the Meeting, The Secretary read the Report of the Council agreed upon at their meeting of the 16th April last, whereupon it was Resolved, That the said Report be received and adopted, and that the Thanks of the Society be given to the Director and Council for their services. The Thanks of the Society were also voted to Mr. Bruce the late Treasurer, to the Editors of the Society's publications for the past year, and to the Local Secretaries. The Secretary then read the Report of the Auditors agreed upon at their Meeting of the 29th April last, whereupon it was Resolved, that the said Report be received and adopted, and that the thanks of the Society be given to them for their trouble. The Thanks of the Society having then been voted to the Treasurer, Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.139, on 27 Sep 2021 at 21:43:19, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042169900003515 2 ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF 1845. The Meeting proceeded to the election of Officers, when The Right Hon. Lord BBAYBBOOKE, F.S.A. was elected PRESIDENT of the Society; and THOMAS AMYOT, Esq. F.R.S., Treas. S.A. JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, Esq. F.S.A. CHARLES PURTON COOPER, Esq. Q.C., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A. BOLTON CORNEY, Esq. T. CROFTON CROKER, Esq. F.S.A., M.R.I.A. Sir HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S., Sec. S.A. The Rev. JOSEPH HUNTER, F.S.A. PETER LEVESQUE, Esq., F.S.A. Sir FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H., F.R.S., F.S.A. THOMAS JOSEPH PETTIGREW, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A. THOMAS STAPLETON, Esq. F.S.A. WILLIAM JOHN THOMS, Esq. F.S.A. Sir HARRY VERNEY, Bart. ALBERT WAY, Esq. M.A., Dir. S.A., and THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq. M.A., F.S.A. were elected as the COUNCIL ; and WILLIAM DURRANT COOPER, Esq. F.S.A. GEORGE RICHARD CORNER, Esq. F.S.A. The Rev. SAMUEL ROFFY MAITLAND, F.R.S., F.S.A. were elected AUDITORS of the Society for the ensuing year. Thanks were then voted-to the Secretary; and to Lord BRAYBROOKE, for the interest he had always taken in the welfare of the Society, and for his able conduct in the Chair. ELECTION OF OFFICERS, 1845. AT a Meeting of the COUNCIL of the Camden Society held at No. 25, Parliament Street, Westminster, on Wednesday the 8th May, 1845, The Rt. Hon. Lord BRAYBROOKE, the President, in the Chair; THOMAS AMYOT, Esq. was elected Director; JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, Esq. Treasurer; and WILLIAM J. THOMS, Esq. Secretary, for the Year next ensuing. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.139, on 27 Sep 2021 at 21:43:19, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042169900003515 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, ELECTED 2nd MAY, 1844. THE COUNCIL elected on the 2nd of May, 1844, have much satis- faction in reporting the continued prosperity of the Society, and that, by the investments of the compositions received from four members, the stock standing in the names of the Trustees for the Society has been increased from £739 19s. Id. to £779 15*. Id. While thus adverting to the gradual but satisfactory increase in their funded property, and the security thus given for the perpetuity of the Society, the Council cannot but express their regret that Mr. Bruce's removal from London, rendering him unable to give that personal attend- ance at the Meetings of the Council which he felt to be essential to the proper discharge of his duties as Treasurer, has induced him to resign that office—an office which he has filled since the institution of the Society with a zeal, fidelity, and judgment which have contributed in the highest degree to its prosperity. The Members will probably feel it due to that gentleman to testify by a general vote their satisfaction at the manner in which he has executed his office of Treasurer, and the high sense they entertain of his services to the Society. The Council further report, that, under the fifth law of the Society, they have filled up the vacancy thus created by the unanimous election to the Treasurership of Mr. J. PAYNE COLLIER, a gentleman who has not only been a zealous and attentive Member of the Council ever since the first formation of the Society, but has given ample evidence of his wil- lingness to labour in its cause by editing two most valuable publications. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.139, on 27 Sep 2021 at 21:43:19, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042169900003515 4 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1845. The Council have added the following gentlemen to the List of Local Secretaries:— ROBERT GREENE BRADLEY, Esq. for Lancaster; GEORGE ORMEROD, Esq. D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., for Chepstow; JAMES FALCONAR, Esq. F.S.A., for Doncaster; J. M. G. CHEEK, Esq. for Evesham; J. STOCKDALE HARDY, Esq. F.S.A., for Leicester; JOSEPH JONES, Junr. Esq. for Oldham; The Rev. HERBERT HILL, M.A., for Warwick; The Rev. WILLIAM ATTHILL, M.A., for Middleham; R. W. HESLOP, Esq. for Ripon; and JOHN JACKSON BLANDY, Esq. for Reading, in lieu of JOHN RICHARDS, Junior, Esq. who retires from that ofBce. The Council desire to repeat the suggestion of preceding Councils, as to the advantages afforded to the Society by gentlemen possessing local influence giving their assistance as Local Secretaries of the Society. The duties attached to this office are comparatively trifling, while the benefits conferred upon the Society by a judicious discharge of them are most considerable. The Publications of the present year have been— I. A Translation of Polydore Vergil's History of the Reigns of Henry the Sixth, Edward the Fourth, and Richard the Third, from a MS. in the Royal Col- lection, British Museum. Edited by Sir HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S., Sec. S.A. II. The French Chronicle of London, from a MS. in the Cottonian Library. Edited by GEORGE JOHN AONGIER, Esq. III. The Metrical Romances of Sir Perceval, Sir Isumbras, Sir Eglamour, and Sir Degrevante. Edited by JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A. And a fourth, being a Volume of Notes of Proceedings in the Long Par- liament, by Sir Ralph Verney, a portion of the valuable Collection of Family Papers placed at the service of the Society by Sir Harry Verney, Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.139, on 27 Sep 2021 at 21:43:19, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042169900003515 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1845. 5 Baronet, and edited by Mr. Bruce, will be ready for immediate delivery. This volume will, it is believed, be found to be of permanent historical importance; and the Members cannot but feel grateful to Sir H. Verney for thus placing at their disposal valuable papers, the historical worth of which has been established by the use already made of portions of them by that distinguished Member of the Society, the Author of The Con- stitutional History of England. The first book for the next year is also completed at press, and will be delivered to the Members as soon as bound. It is the Autobiography of Sir John Bramston, edited by the Right Honourable the President, from the original manuscript in the possession of his descendant, Thomas William Bramston, Esq. one of the Knights of the Shire for South Essex, who has kindly permitted the publication of a volume which, it is hoped, will throw considerable light upon the state of politics and society during the Stuarts' reigns. The Volumes which have been added to the List of suggested Pub- lications during the past year are— The Master of the Game. To be edited from Manuscripts of the Fifteenth Century, by Sir HENRY DBYDEN, Bart. F.S.A. De Antiquis Legibus Liber, a Chronicle of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London, and of divers events of those times. To be edited by THOMAS STAPLETON, Esq. F.S.A. Selection from the Archives of the City of Canterbury, illustrative of the State of Society in England during the Middle Ages. To be edited by THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq. M.A., F.S.A. Extracts from the Journal and Account Book of a Sussex Clergyman, kept from 1655 to 1679. To be edited by R. W. BLENCOWE, Esq. Camden's Visitation of Huntingdonshire, made by Nicholas Charles, his Deputy, from the Original Visitation preserved among the Cottonian Manuscripts. To be edited by Sir HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S., F.S.A. The Early Charters and Statutes of the Collegiate Church of Middleham, in the county of York. To be edited by the Rev. WILLIAM ATTHILL, M.A. Canon and Sub-Dean of Middleham.